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Folks, I've been running an icecast server for about a year, and never really had the chance to test it out on the other side of our Internet link. We've had a lot of people trying us out, but very short connect times in the whole. I finally got a cable modem at home, tried having a listen, and found the stream to be very stuttery. So, first things first, I went and grabbed the

...s like a good time. I didn't get any definitive answers, but based on some responses, I did some digging. It turns out, from what I can tell, streamcast doesn't send bitrate information. Here's the changes I made in the part of the code so that it does: 182c188,189 < icy_compat => 0, --- > icy_compat => 1, > bitrate => $bitrate, This is for v0.8 as indicated at the top of streamcast.pl. Once I did this, all was well and icecast really started listing my stream! And it gets even better: I had also inquired a...

At 02:40 06/04/01 -0700, Harry wrote: >It turns out, from what I can tell, streamcast doesn't send bitrate >information. Here's the changes I made in the part of the code so that it does: > >182c188,189 >< icy_compat => 0, >--- > > icy_compat => 1, > > bitrate => $bitrate, Well, how weird is this, eh ? Thanks for the tip, Harry. I made the change, and now my stream is fine (no stuttering, no clicks, pops, bangs or crackles) but it didn...